I got my A’level results recently and achieved two As and a B and now I’m at uni. I attended Feversham Islamic College for seven years. It's an all girls’ school; I was 11 when I started there. Academically I think all the girls in that school do well.

A lot of people assume that going to Feversham College means all the girls are narrow minded or they won't really socialise with other people, but we do mix in with different people. We’re respectful towards what they believe and what they practise. I do know that sometimes people think that just because a school is faith based that it's somehow going to be extremist, people look at places like Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Iran and think those sorts of things. My experiences, as a young woman born in Britain, is completely different to the experiences of woman in other countries – it's unique to this country. I just get sick of people comparing us to Muslim women in third world countries! Who is the one with the narrow mind I ask you? – I’m just like any other teenager – but I’m Muslim – simple as!

It's nice to get to know other people's backgrounds and their culture. I have diverse friends from different nationalities and some of them are non-Muslims. One's French, one's Pakistani, another Gujarati. So the things that we do are mixed. Sometimes we go to an Asian restaurant like Ambala's or Sunrise and other times we’ll go to McDonald’s. The school used to be very small, with maybe a couple of hundred students. Now that they’ve made a bigger building, it's about 600 and still rising. All the teachers there are really cool basically. What's a bit surprising to other people is they’ll expect all the teachers to be Muslims and actually the majority I think are white and non-Muslim and even the head teacher is a non-Muslim.